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View files on your Remote Machines using the new Remote File Explorer in Visual Studio

February 27, 2023 Feb 27, 2023 02/27/23
Sinem Akinci
We are excited to announce that we have added a new tool window, the Remote File Explorer, to Visual Studio in version 17.6 Preview 1.  This window provides you with the ability to browse, upload, and download files and folders on your remote machines that you are connected to via the Connection Manager within your Visual Studio instance...

CMake debugger allows you to debug your CMake scripts and more

February 22, 2023 Feb 22, 2023 02/22/23
Sinem Akinci
The VS CMake team has been working in close collaboration with Kitware on developing a debugger for CMake scripts in the Visual Studio IDE (see this open Kitware issue for more details). We will be contributing this work back upstream (targeting the 3.27 release) so that the developer community can have it and work to improve it together, by ...

Improving the State of Debug Performance in C++

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
Cameron DaCamara
In this blog we will explore one change the MSVC compiler has implemented in an effort to improve the codegen quality of applications in debug mode. We will highlight what the change does, and how it could be extended for the future. If debug performance is something you care about for your C++ projects, then Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 is...

Microsoft C++ Code Analysis Warnings with Key Events

September 20, 2022 Sep 20, 2022 09/20/22
Hwi-sung Im
Introduction  To make your C++ coding experience as safe as possible, the Microsoft C++ Code Analysis has added new checks and improved existing ones to help you prevent bugs before they find their way into your products. Some of the checks work harder than others, analyzing the code deeper by simulating runtime behavior. As such, they can ...

Importing ST projects into Visual Studio Code

September 1, 2022 Sep 1, 2022 09/1/22
Marc Goodner
In the world of Arm microcontrollers there are many silicon vendors, one of the largest is STMicroelectronics. ST has a large catalog of available devices with many capabilities as well as supporting development boards for evaluating them. They also produce STM32CubeIDE, a custom IDE to use when targeting their devices, and STM32CubeMX, a ...

Serial and Zephyr support for Visual Studio and VS Code

June 7, 2022 Jun 7, 2022 06/7/22
Marc Goodner
We are continuing to improve our embedded development support in Visual Studio and VS Code. We have recently introduced a serial monitor and RTOS support for Zephyr. These capabilities are present in Visual Studio 17.3 Preview 1 as part of the Linux and embedded development workload. The Embedded Tools extension for VS Code also includes these...

Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio

December 6, 2021 Dec 6, 2021 12/6/21
Marc Goodner
In this post we will walk you through Visual Studio installation of the embedded workload, how to acquire embedded tool dependencies with vcpkg, then demonstrate edit, build, deploy, and debugging directly in Visual Studio with new peripheral register and RTOS object views. We will demonstrate all of this with an Azure RTOS ThreadX project.